Ren Toxx

Yes, I balance it. If a hair is too render-costly but I like it, I’ll usually pick lighter items for other parts of my outfit.

OwO

I’m not sure how to take not ever having managed to confuse anyone... I shall have to ramp up my efforts. Meanwhile I guess I’ll settle for a decent score on laughs.

I type fast enough not to need sacrificing correct punctuation; it’s as much a question of habit as anything else. And if someone is that impatient, I’d gladly not talk to him or her at all. Recently, someone told me in IM that ending phrases with a period made me sound blunter. I resisted the temptation to demonstrate proper bluntness.

0.01

I suck at it.

I’m not beset by visuals (or by others’ need to strut like peacocks), most are just a once-over for me, so on my previous PC I used to derender a lot of eye candy. Less so now, but I still far prioritize usable FPS.

No.

Much as I’d love being the recipient of some of that “drive-by charity”, I agree that user-to-user helping areas, or individual accounts of a certain SL age range, are your nicest choice; in the latter case I’d go for users not too new to know what to do with the L$ (or even what they are), nor too old that they can’t—and haven’t probably—gotten their own.

Yer all wrong. It was demonic rings, and I just got the guy for it...

Nice to have.

No.

Can, yes. Want, no.

Or roleplaying sims where noobs would land by chance and, in their confusion, spoil the play. There can be many reasons, so I think nothing in particular of sims that do it.

I wait until I’m not.

Same. It slows down my dressing at home, but once I save the outfit, if I’m elsewhere and have problems detaching temporary stuff, I just go to the outfits list and click “Wear” on whichever I was using. Seems to work.

Yes, but I don’t envy others’ obsessions, cos mine is already fantabulous.

No. Years ago I was a competent if uninspired photographer, but I’m too rusty now.

Unless we wore the blingiest, clickiest pre-sculpt boots we could find, over twin Ruths. Then we’d both be fugly and traceable. Just sayin’

IBTL, and also to steal some of @Love Zhaoying’s yummy pupcorn 👀 😊

Yes. ... Ooops, sorry, I talked to you. I shouldn’t have, not with that ugly system av. So I guess now I should be ashamed as well, right? 😜

Here’s a quote I rather like, from an A.J. Quinnell novel: “Her beauty controlled her mind. From an early age it had allowed her to tread different paths from most women. It was a weapon, and a vehicle in which to travel through life. An armored vehicle, protecting her from discomfort and indignity. She had a good mind and in a body even slightly less beautiful it would have been free to expand and develop and see beyond the circle of light which her beauty illuminated. But when the vehicle moved, the shadows were pushed back and she could not see them.” I’ve seen quite a few system avatars who broke through the sea of indifference and got enough appreciation and warmth, by resorting from the beginning to things you definitely can’t buy from the Marketplace: charisma, niceness, intelligence, humour. Sure, you can also get more IMs and invitations and friendship requests and whatnot, by making yourself shiny, but... what kind of people sends those IMs, invitations and requests? Are they interested by your personality, is that the first thing they’ll try to know more of? Or are they just looking for shiny and, at best, shiny is all they’ll have to offer in return?

I hang out at a very public place that also hosts new players, and often talk to these; some of them tell me, with some surprise, that I’m practically the first one who deigned chatting with them, and some go as far as guessing that it’s their primitive avatars that make some people be unfriendly to them. I always advise them, “perhaps those are exactly the last ones you want to be friends with”.

To harass meself. No one does it like me alt.